Don/Shar
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Last night we got to enjoy another of the benefits of gate attening. We have gotten coffee, cookies, oranges, gum, and pop. Last night we got to enjoy a catered dinner.
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The Texan
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navyAZ1 wrote:I'm sort of surprised to here that there are so many folks waiting for gates. The manager we had with GGS called us about 1 month ago asking when we were coming out said he needed us. However, we have stopped full timing and have purchased a home in N. GA and won't be going out this fall, plan on going back out to work after the first of the year. Y'all stay safe out there!
Ron There aren't Rich, they go out as fast as they arrive. We had 10+ go out in one day. People are afraid that the job may not be there for them, so they are throwing out some misinformation. We have friends arriving 12/1 and the office told them to come on down, they had a job for them.
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Don/Shar wrote:Last night we got to enjoy another of the benefits of gate attening. We have gotten coffee, cookies, oranges, gum, and pop. Last night we got to enjoy a catered dinner.
Last week we had a Frac job going on in our gate site. They catered food twice a day for 5 days..our fridg is full!! 1 rig meal = 3 regular meals.
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The Texan wrote:navyAZ1 wrote:I'm sort of surprised to here that there are so many folks waiting for gates. The manager we had with GGS called us about 1 month ago asking when we were coming out said he needed us. However, we have stopped full timing and have purchased a home in N. GA and won't be going out this fall, plan on going back out to work after the first of the year. Y'all stay safe out there!
Ron There aren't Rich, they go out as fast as they arrive. We had 10+ go out in one day. People are afraid that the job may not be there for them, so they are throwing out some misinformation. We have friends arriving 12/1 and the office told them to come on down, they had a job for them.
From what I've heard this last week, a few of the companies are slowing down until the first of the year, so there may be fewer gates for a couple of months.
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Blondie Girl wrote:Don/Shar wrote:Last night we got to enjoy another of the benefits of gate attening. We have gotten coffee, cookies, oranges, gum, and pop. Last night we got to enjoy a catered dinner.
Last week we had a Frac job going on in our gate site. They catered food twice a day for 5 days..our fridg is full!! 1 rig meal = 3 regular meals.
Hasn't happened often here-but the food has been good. The best has been a catfish and shrimp fry!
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blondie girl wrote:From what I've heard this last week, a few of the companies are slowing down until the first of the year, so there may be fewer gates for a couple of months.
We have also heard of several sites closing due to hunting season and will reopen when the season ends.
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wingerphil wrote:blondie girl wrote:From what I've heard this last week, a few of the companies are slowing down until the first of the year, so there may be fewer gates for a couple of months.
We have also heard of several sites closing due to hunting season and will reopen when the season ends. That is mainly on "hunting" ranches, like the Y-O in the hill country and that is written into the lease. They can make as much during a hunt season as they do from oil royalties, and they don't want anyone on the lease creating a problem. What is funny, is that some of these "hunting" ranches actually have gate guards during the hunting season, that they hire on their own. We worked a hunting ranch gate during the season, back in 07 and his rates then were $2000 to $5000 a day per hunter. We hear the locals hunting around us most every evening and all day on Sat....bang, bang, bang..![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/biggrin.gif "biggrin")
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Don/Shar
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Company tonite. We are at a gate south of Cotulla on a hunting ranch. We have seen this guy three times. Tonite he came right up to our motorhome.
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We moved to a new location Fri and all weekend we heard the hunters shooting around us. I just hope no stray bullets head our way. We didn't have hunting around us last year. We were on Bert's(GGS owner) ranch for a well. Guess there was no hunting close to us.
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Don/Shar wrote:
Company tonite. We are at a gate south of Cotulla on a hunting ranch. We have seen this guy three times. Tonite he came right up to our motorhome.
OMG..that is a beautiful sight to see!!
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